On Tue, 14 Nov 1995 14:49:23 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
Hello,
On Tue, 14 Nov 1995, Jeff Barber wrote:
s1113645@tesla.cc.uottawa.ca writes:
Does anyone know the ostensible justification for this? What section of the ITARs do they point to when they say "this is illegal"? I've perused an online copy of ITAR (no, I haven't read all of it -- I have other things I want to do this year :-), but I can't find a section that could be construed to support this contention.
I scanned through the ITAR, and I agree that there doesn't seem to be anything about hooks that are illegal, but the NSA does have the authority to protect whatever threatens national security. If they are over-stepping their bounds who is going to push it to court to find out, as that is where the decision would have to be made (very expensive). Take care and have fun.
The ITAR talks about crypto components, the government is interpreting this as software that allows plug-in encryption. Dan Weinstein djw@pdcorp.com http://www.earthlink.net/~danjw PGP public key is available from my Home Page. All opinions expressed above are mine. "I understand by 'freedom of Spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No. Friedrich Nietzsche